[ww520]

The amount of data collected is truly getting out of hand.

I was buying an iPhone from a cell carrier for their bundled cell plan deal. They used Stripe for payment processing. Stripe asked me to upload my driver license/passport and took a video of my face so their “AI” could verify my identity. I’ve been a customer with the carrier for years so my profile and credit card info were with them already.

The data collection was unbelievably intrusive. Really, I could just walk down to an Apple store to get the phone and went with another cell carrier. I did exactly that. Stopped the transaction and took my business elsewhere.

[trollbridge]

And, of course, a picture of your passport and driver licence proves absolutely nothing, except that you're able to upload a picture of a passport and a picture of a driver licence. Uploading a video of your face proves that, well, you have a face. It would be trivial to make the photo and video match with easily accessible technology.

At least where I live, governments don't really let a third party validate the info on a passport or even on a driver licence outside of a few regulated entities like banks - so they aren't doing anything useful with these photos, except storing them for the inevitable leak.

[ww520]

Yes. There's a reason hotels refuse to accept the photo copy of a driver license on paper or in phone as the ID for the check-in guests. Similarly hotels refuse to accept photo copy of credit cards. It's so easy to Photoshop an ID these day.

[blitzar]

It's so easy to Photoshop an ID since the 80's